33 Struggles Only Copy Editors Will Understand

I got 99 problems but a serial comma ain’t one.

You are literally blinded by pain any time you see "is" or "be" lowercased in a title.

And yeah, you don't use "literally" figuratively.

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You're either staunchly for or against the serial comma — nowhere in the middle.

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You're excited to get an email from a friend you haven't heard from in a while...until you realize it's a presentation, résumé, or application they'd like you to edit.

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You'd rather skinny-dip through the New York City sewer than subject your eyes to a hyphen after an adverb.

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John Grisham Says Child Porn Offenders Should Be Given Lighter Sentences

The author said he had a good friend who was imprisoned for downloading child porn.

Best-selling author John Grisham has claimed men who view child pornography online should be given lighter prison sentences.

In an interview with the Telegraph , the 59-year-old said those who were jailed for downloading illegal images of children had probably had “too much to drink”.

The American writer claimed there were now too many people in prison in the US.

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"We have prisons now filled with guys my age. Sixty-year-old white men in prison who've never harmed anybody, would never touch a child.

"But they got online one night and started surfing around, probably had too much to drink or whatever, and pushed the wrong buttons, went too far and got into child porn."

Grisham revealed he had a “good buddy” who was sent to prison for three years after getting caught in a child porn sting operation in Canada.

The author said: "His drinking was out of control, and he went to a website. It was labelled 'sixteen year old wannabee hookers’ or something like that. And it said '16-year-old girls'. So he went there. Downloaded some stuff – it was 16 year old girls who looked 30.

"He shouldn't ’a done it. It was stupid, but it wasn't 10-year-old boys. He didn't touch anything. And God, a week later there was a knock on the door: ‘FBI!’ and it was sting set up by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to catch people – sex offenders – and he went to prison for three years."

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Grisham told the Telegraph he thought America had gone “nuts with this incarceration”.

He explained he had no sympathy for “real paedophiles” but believed many of the men imprisoned for watching and downloading child porn didn’t deserved the sentences they were given.

The BBC reports America currently has 2.2 million adults behind bars, the largest prison population in the world.

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If Dorothy Parker Quips Were Motivational Posters

I don’t care what’s written about me, so long as it isn’t true.

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Laverne Cox On The Books That Changed Her Life

The Orange Is The New Black star and host of MTV’s upcoming The T Word sat down with BuzzFeed to share the novels that are necessary for anyone’s reading list.

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Confessions Of A Sex Kitten, Eartha Kitt

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Confessions Of A Sex Kitten was so major. Eartha Kitt is a huge possibility idol for me. The thing about women like Eartha Kitt, Lena Horne, and Diahann Carroll — these black artists in the '40s, '50s, and '60s — they were making a way out of no way. Eartha's book, the first paragraph of it I was bawling. It's just so deep! Her love life I can so relate to as a trans woman. She dated a lot of white men, who dated her privately. They would never date her openly or marry her. That's something I can certainly relate to as a trans woman. She is brilliant and amazing and sexy and smart and political! She was blacklisted for like 10 years. Eartha Kitt is everything, may she rest in peace.

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5 Classic Novels Liam Neeson Bathes In Before Your Colonoscopy

You read that right. Jimmy Kimmel gave me this idea.

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I went on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to test it out with him, and one of the headlines we created at random was "5 Classic Novels Liam Neeson Bathes In Before Your Colonoscopy."

Thank you, Jimmy. This list is for you.

Call of the Wild, by Jack London

Call of the Wild tells the story of Buck, a dog who is ripped from his happy domestic existence in California and forced into survival mode as a sled dog in Alaska.

Neeson experiences something quite similar in his incomparable film, The Grey. In that film, Neeson is stranded after a plane crash in Alaska, and left to fend for himself (along with other, less impressive actors) in the wild.

Before your colonoscopy, which is venturing into uncharted territory, so to speak, Mr. Neeson bathes in the pages of this classic novel as a show of camaraderie. Thank you, Mr. Neeson.

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The Princess Bride, by William Goldman

In 1973, this classic novel introduced us to the romance between Buttercup and her devoted farm boy, Westley. They didn't need many words to communicate, a simple, "As you wish" (read: I LOVE YOU) would suffice.

In 2003, the world watched as Neeson revealed himself to be a hopeless romantic in Love Actually as the character of Daniel. In the film, Daniel mourns the loss of his wife, much as Buttercup initially mourns the loss of Westley. But Daniel encourages his son Sam to pursue a classmate he's fallen head-over-heels for. In fact, he encourages Sam to CHASE HER through an airport! (If it sounds familiar, that's because you may remember Westley chasing his love up the side of a mountain, and across land and sea).

Before your colonoscopy, Neeson bathes in these pages as a reminder that love, actually, is all around us.

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